141: Chapter 141 Ocean Spirit Clam?

Watching Shen Shuang charging straight at it, the squid's dark golden vertical pupils suddenly constricted.

Its two thickest tentacles shot out like giant pythons, one whipping towards Shen Shuang's body, the other coiling toward her right arm.

Shen Shuang forcefully twisted her body in mid-air, condensing an ice shield on her left arm to block the whipping tentacle.

The ice shield shattered. As she was sent flying backward by the impact, she hurriedly waved her hand, releasing a sheet of frost that actually froze the nearby sea area into ice.

She slid over a dozen meters on the surface of the sea before stabilizing her figure.

However, the bone spike on her right arm had already slashed across another of the squid's tentacles, leaving a bloody gash deep enough to see bone.

Dark green blood gushed out, and as it fell into the seawater, it made a sizzling sound.

"Yu Nian! Hit its eyes!" Shen Shuang shouted.

Yu Nian dove down from the air. His left arm condensed a thick bolt of lightning, while his right arm spewed dark purple poisonous mist. The lightning and poison intertwined into a net, shrouding the squid's head.

The squid's tentacles suddenly stood upright, forming a barrier above its head. The lightning struck the tentacles, exploding into a mass of charred black.

The poisonous mist permeated, and the suckers on the surface of the tentacles began to fester.

In pain, the squid whipped two other tentacles at Yu Nian. The wings on Yu Nian's back vibrated at high speed, leaving a trail of afterimages in the air as he narrowly dodged.

Xu Tao charged from the front.

He sprinted across the water, each step exploding a splash on the sea surface.

His right eye locked onto the slightly raised scale on the squid's abdomen, while the shield on his right arm blocked the strike from another tentacle.

He thrust his right-hand fingers into the gap between the tentacle's suckers, and the poison needles at his fingertips pierced in, causing the squid's tentacle to go numb.

He opened his lips, and a grayish-white mist enveloped a third tentacle. The surface of that tentacle began to harden and crack, its movements becoming increasingly sluggish.

The squid was besieged by the three, its eight tentacles struggling to cope.

But it was, after all, a level 63 Imperial Spirit low-grade deep-sea overlord. Once enraged, its body suddenly expanded, and the silver patterns on its skin lit up with a blinding light.

Its eight tentacles exploded outward simultaneously, and dense, thorny barbs emerged from every tentacle, resembling eight barbed steel whips.

"Look out! It's about to use its ultimate move!" Yu Nian shouted.

The squid's tentacles danced wildly, and a huge vortex formed on the sea surface with it at the center.

Seawater was churned up, turning into a wall of water several zhang high, crushing toward the three of them.

This was its skill—Deep Sea Pressure, using tidal power to create a vortex and drag enemies into the deep sea.

Shen Shuang gritted her teeth, plunging her left arm into the seawater, attempting to freeze the vortex.

But the squid's power was too strong; the ice layer was shredded by the vortex as soon as it formed.

She stabbed the bone spike on her right arm into the edge of the vortex to stabilize herself, but her whole body was dragged toward the center by the vortex.

"Captain!"

Yu Nian shot down several bolts of lightning from the air, trying to disrupt the vortex, but the lightning was blocked by the water wall, only kicking up a few splashes.

Xu Tao sprinted over the water, stabbing his right hand into a tentacle at the edge of the vortex, but the squid's tentacle was too slippery. His fingers slipped, and he, too, was dragged toward the center of the vortex.

Shen Shuang slammed her right leg against the water, wanting to use the force to jump out of the vortex, but one of the squid's tentacles silently emerged from underwater and coiled around her right leg.

The suckers opened, beginning to drain her spiritual energy. The armor on Shen Shuang's right leg began to dim, and her face turned pale instantly.

"Captain!" Yu Nian yelled.

Lin Fan had been watching the battlefield from the boat.

His left eye hadn't stopped operating for a single moment.

He saw the squid's abdomen; that slightly raised scale had opened a tiny slit while it was unleashing its ultimate move.

That was its weak point, and also its most fatal flaw. But he didn't have a chance to get close, and Shen Shuang was almost unable to hold on.

He took a deep breath, and the golden crystal in his left eye lit up.

Nightmare Weaver.

Mental Energy condensed into an invisible spike, passing through the water wall, through the gaps in the tentacles, and accurately shooting into the squid's head.

Even though the squid's Mental Energy far exceeded Lin Fan's, Nightmare Weaver could still hard-control it for an instant.

It was just this instant.

The squid's tentacles loosened for a moment, and the rotation speed of the vortex slowed down abruptly.

Shen Shuang seized the opportunity, exerted force with her right leg, broke free from the tentacle's coils, and leaped back over a dozen meters.

Yu Nian fired three consecutive lightning bolts from the air, hitting the squid's two eyes, causing the squid's vision to be briefly blinded.

Xu Tao thrust his right hand into the gap of the open scale on the squid's abdomen and injected poison; the squid let out a sharp hiss.

"Its abdomen! Hit that scale!" Lin Fan shouted.

Shen Shuang, Yu Nian, and Xu Tao lunged at the squid simultaneously. Shen Shuang waved her left arm, condensing a huge ice cone, while the bone spike on her right arm thrust out at the same time.

Yu Nian dove from the air, unleashing lightning and poisonous mist together.

Xu Tao rushed under the squid's abdomen, thrust his right hand into the scale gap, smashed his left arm's stone fist against the scale, and spewed petrification breath from his lips.

The squid's tentacles danced frantically, attempting to protect its abdomen.

But three of its tentacles had already been hardened by Xu Tao's petrification breath, two had been corroded by Yu Nian's poisonous mist, and two had been frozen by Shen Shuang's ice cone, leaving only one still able to move.

That tentacle whipped toward Shen Shuang, but she dodged sideways, and the ice cone and bone spike simultaneously pierced into that raised scale.

The scale shattered, and a mass of eerie blue light surged out from the wound.

Yu Nian's lightning claws and poison stings followed closely behind; the lightning exploded, and the poisonous mist seeped into the wound.

The squid let out a heaven-shaking hiss, and its eight tentacles hung down powerlessly.

Its body began to sink, and its dark golden vertical pupils gradually lost their luster.

Its massive body crashed onto the sea surface, kicking up waves several zhang high.

Shen Shuang landed on the bow of the boat, panting heavily.

Yu Nian dropped back onto the boat from the air, his face pale.

Xu Tao walked back across the water, his right hand still dripping with dark green blood.

Lin Fan stood up from the side of the boat, rubbing his burning left eye.

"Is it dead?" Yu Nian asked.

Shen Shuang didn't answer, only staring at the squid's corpse floating on the sea surface.

It was motionless, its tentacles swaying gently with the waves.

Shen Shuang nodded. "It's dead."

Yu Nian plopped down onto the boat.

"Exhausting... A level 63 Imperial Spirit Armor Beast, it's damn hard to fight."

Xu Tao didn't speak, just walked to the side of the boat, crouched down, and used water to wash the blood off his hands.

Lin Fan took several small porcelain bottles out of his backpack and handed them to the three.

"For recovering spiritual energy, drink some."

Shen Shuang took it, tilted her head back, and downed it, her complexion improving slightly.

Yu Nian and Xu Tao drank as well, and the three of them leaned against the gunwale to rest for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Shen Shuang stood up.

"Dissect the corpse. A level 63 Imperial Spirit Armor Beast, its whole body is a treasure."

She took a specialized dissection knife out of her spatial ring and handed it to Yu Nian.

"You're good at this kind of thing. Be careful of its poison glands."

Yu Nian took the knife and jumped onto the squid's corpse.

He skillfully cut open the tentacles, removed the barbs from the suckers, and then cut off the meat from the tentacles.

Shen Shuang directed from the side of the boat, while Lin Fan helped on the boat by passing boxes to store the Materials.

"The abdomen, under that scale, there should be its ink sac."

Xu Tao walked to the abdomen, thrust his right hand into the wound, and pried it open with force.

A large scale was pried open, revealing the dark red muscle tissue underneath.

Xu Tao reached in, groped around for a while, and suddenly frowned.

"What's wrong?" Shen Shuang asked.

Xu Tao didn't answer, extending both hands inside and pulling outward with force.

A huge object was dragged out of the squid's body by him.

It was a clam shell, a full meter in size, entirely silver-white.

The clam shell was tightly closed, and a faint, eerie blue halo of light shone through the gap.

Lin Fan's left eye heated up slightly, and information appeared in his field of vision.

[Item]: Oceanic Spirit Clam

[Evaluation]: One of the prey devoured by the Abyss Squid, failed to digest it. There seems to be some kind of life surviving inside the clam shell.